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Only had one just a year after I got my license. Was going 45mph in a 25mph zone, I was testing out the 'passing gear' in my new car to impress a friend. Ooops! Cop was nice enough to knock it down to 30 in a 25 since it was my first ticket, but he had to give me one just to scare me when I was young (which it did) so I wouldn't do it again (and I haven't done it again).
I got pulled over once for a burnt out headlight. I had to pick up my then fiance' from work at 2a.m. and didn't know it was burnt out till I started the car to leave. It's not like I can buy a new bulb at 2a.m. so I only got a warning, and first thing in the morning I got the bulb replaced, which I would have done even if I hadn't been stopped.
My mom on the other hand has had the darndest luck with cops!
*first wreck at 18, she slid off a side road on sheet ice, Normally around here she'd have gotten a ticket for 'failure to control the vehicle'. The first wrecker and police car on the scene BOTH slid off the road in the same spot right into the car!! It crushed my grandpa's car to bits!!! Needless to say she didn't get a ticket!
Her next 2 wrecks were in an ORANGE Pinto...
*One the driver was going wrong way on a one way street while mom was at the intersection, driver cut corner too close and hit her. It was icy that day and had only cleared a very tiny portion of his windshield, so that's why he didn't see mom. When the cop showed up he didn't buy the guys story of just plain not seeing her (omitting the part about not clearing the now defrosted windshield). The cop took one look at the bright orange pinto and said 'there's no way in heck you can NOT see this car!'. Needless to say mom didn't get a ticket.
*Next wreck in same orange pinto was when she dropped me off at school. Some high school kid came zooming out of the lot about the space of 10 parking spaces, and rammed right into mom's front fender! When the cop showed up the guys claims my mom got up to 'at least 50mph' in that same space and hit HIM! Cop took one look at the now bondo-ed orange and gray pinto, and said 'there is NO WAY a pinto can reach a speed like that in that distance'. Needless to say mom didn't get a ticket.
*mom got a red pickup truck with 4 wheel drive, and one winter after a BIG snowstorm was going to show me how to drive it since I'd never used 4 weel drive or a rear wheel drive vehicle. So she took me to an empty snow filled parkinglot and let me try sliding and correcting a skid with and without 4x4 in. Mom laughed at me while I was doing these teeny little skids. So she gets behind the wheel and starts doing these fabulous 180's and 160's all over the lot reving the engine and having a blast. That's when we saw the cop pull into the lot!! With snow bucking the cop car's headlights, mom drove over to him so he wouldn't get stuck trying to get to the back of the lot. The cop was trying SO HARD not to bust out laughing when he saw an old gray haired woman roll down the window when he expected a bunch of teens!! Mom explained how she was teaching me to drive 4x4 and figured an empty lot was the safest place. The cop agreed and said it was ok. He was grinning from ear to ear the entire time he was sliding backing out of the lot!
*Mom's next wreck was trying to turn left (without a light) at a busy intersection. This particular day there was a parade of antique cars in a LONG line coming towards her on a 4 lane highway, they were using the closest lane to mom so she couldn't see the far lane. One car in the middle of the parade finally stopped to let her turn, and as she turned a car shot out of a nearby gas station in that far lane and RAMMED right into mom's car! When the cop showed up the parade was STILL going on and the cop had to WAIT to even get to the wreck. The parade cars wouldn't even let the cop in! The cop found out that they were running the red lights with only a cop in the lead and no cop at each intersection directing traffic, nor anyone following the parade in the rear. That made the cop mad, so mom didn't get a ticket because if the cops had been stationed where they should have been the wreck would never have happened. So much to the annoyance of the other driver, mom didn't get a ticket.
*mom got pulled over once when she was young, after she took a friend to the bar and was parked there all day. Mom drank only Pepsi and was driving, but her friend was blasted! This cop sat outside the bar and followed mom all the way to drop off her friend, AND all the way to the babysitters house to get me. Apparently I was sleeping in the carseat. The cop finally pulls mom over and when he walked up to the car he shined his flashlight in and it woke me up, and of course I cried my fool head off (I was very little at the time). Mom lit into that cop for following her so far without stopping her, for stopping her without cause because he'd seen the car parked at a bar all day, and woke up her baby! She demanded his car number, badge number and name of his supervisor the works. I guess that really got the cop nervous, so he let her go. The next week mom goes to the same bar all day with the same friend, and this time they were BOTH blasted! As they left they looked across the road and here sits that SAME cop! Mom's friend got all nervous, but mom just smiled, and as she pulled out of the lot she honked her horn and waved as she drove past the cop, and he did NOT follow or stop her!!!! ROFL
If all that isn't luck I don't know what is! That's just the funniest ones I can think of, there are more!! ROFL
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Yep, I've got a speeding ticket. It **knock on wood, or Frankies head** has been my only one so far. I got it when I was 16 for going 35 in a school zone; there weren't any kids present, but the cop was a jerk.
For the most part our main freeways average 75-80 mph, so you really have to be going fast to get the highway patrol after you. The city cops are the ones to watch out for, they set speed traps regularly.
I've been rear ended three times, but none of them did any damage to my truck because I leave my tow hitch in for this very reason. The first one was a kid that had just got his permit and was driving with his dad. I didn't take any insurance because I felt bad for the poor kid, not to mention that it destroyed the front end of their mini van.
I've also been in a nasty wreck that put me and my passenger in the hospital. A girl that had just got her license did an illegal U-turn on a 2 lane highway in the middle of the night. I somehow managed to avoid hitting her square in the driver's door, but I didn't have any time to even hit my brakes. There wasn't a whole lot left of my truck after that; I miss that truck too.
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I'll never forget my first speeding ticket...
It was just after we had brought our little Angus boy home.
I'd written a check and needed to get the money in the bank asap before going to work. Of course I was on cloud 9 because I had a brand new little rottie puppy at home and was in la-la land while I was driving.
I was caught speeding in a school zone:o
That boy cost me $85 extra dollars...but he was so worth it:D
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Had two (so far) - £60 each and 6 points on my license :( Am a very good girl now
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Yes.
South Africa can be a little like driving in Germany - you either go fast or go home ........... so needless to say, I went fast, and got caught.
and Anna - Yes, I think that was worth getting a fine for - darlin Angus boy.:D
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In 33 years of driving, I've never got a ticket. I'm boring.;)
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not yet! :p ... really, am a honest driver. I speed with flow, sometimes it's 80 or 85MPH. not when I have my furrtravellers with me, so, oftenly impossible being ticketed.
this october will be my seventh year driving! :eek: I remember the day one I got my new car. :D
